Improvement in corn-husking gloves



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" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD F. RATE, OF TIPTON, IOWA.

lMPROV-EMENT lNCORN-HUSKING GLOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 215,542, dated May 20, 1879; application filed February 14, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, EDWARD F. RATE, of Tipton, in the county of Cedar and State of Iowa, have invented a new and usefull 1n provement in Oorn-Husking Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a pattern of the front of glove. Fig. 2 is a pattern for both second and third fingers. Fig. 3 is a pattern for the thumb. Fig. 1 is a pattern for the thumb re-enforce. Fig. 5 is a pattern for the palm re enforce. Fig. 6 is a view of the glove.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved corn-huskin g glove capable of greater resistance to the very destructive wear to which such gloves are subjected than those heretofore used.

The subjectmatter hereinafter claimed will 110w be described.

Fig. 1 shows the pattern which constitutes the front or inside part of the glove, the two parts a 11 forming the re-enforce for the second and third fingers, and the parts 0 and d the backs, respectively, of index and little fingers,

" the said parts having extended ends 0 and d,

which fold over and close, the finger ends, and the extension parts 0 f forming the re-enforce for the same, which, by folding or wrapping entirely around the first and last finger, come on the front or inside.

The second and third fingers are made from the pattern shown in Fig. 2, the extension h on each side folding from the back around, and the edges, which meet in front, being covered by the re-enforees a 1). Thus, it will be seen, all the fingers are re-enforced or double on the front side. The extension-piece '5 on the back part of the middle fingers folds over toward the front and closes the finger ends.

The thumb is constructed from a pattern of ordinary form. It is provided with an extension, Z, to close the end, and is re-enforced by thepiecer. (Shown in Fig. 4.) The palmisalso re-enforced or made double by the piece shown in Fig. '5, (indicated by the letter 8,) and all parts are secured together by rivets, except the three back seams, which, not having to withstand great Wear, may be sewed.

The extensions, heretofore described, which An incidental advantage of my method of riveting to secure the parts, which are so arranged as to require the placing of the rivets on the front or inside, is that those parts being most exposed to wear are in a measure protected, and if the rivets used are long enough the projecting ends will serve to prevent the husk from slipping out of the hand.

My glove is designed to be employed with a husking-pin, which may be riveted securely to the glove.

Having described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. A corn-husking glove having the lap of the seams or the edges of the parts composing the fingers arranged to come on the front or inside, and secured by rivets, as set forth.

2. A corn-husking glove having its front or inside part provided with the extensions 0 and f, which constitute a re-enforee on the front side for the index and little fingers, and secured by rivets, as set forth.

3. A corn-husking glove having its second and third finger each formed of a single piece extending down the back, and provided on either side with the extension h, the edges of which meet in front, and are covered and reenforced by the pieces 8 r, and secured b rivets, as shown and described.

4. A corn-husking glove whereof the fingers, thumb, and palm are all reenforced or covered, so as to protect and hide the seams and make the front or inner side double, and secured by rivets, as set forth.

EDWARD F. RATE.

Witnesses:

J. T. RoBERTs, S. Y. YATES. 

